VINTAGE METAL BOX WITH LATTICE WORK Provenance:Uttar Pradesh - India He is the divine spirit

He is the divine spirit or Daiyva of a male warrior and a cultural hero worshipped as a part of Bhuta Kola

Dattatreya is also believed to be the author of ‘Tripura Rahasya’ – a book on Advaita Vedanta which was given to Parashurama

The column of the lampstand features geometric patterns

suave style

As a connoisseur of vintage art in India

VINTAGE METAL BOX WITH LATTICE WORK Provenance:Uttar Pradesh - India He is the divine spiritMETAL BOX WITH LATTICE WORK This beautiful and antique collectible must have been a pan box from Rajasthan. Pan boxes were used to keep rolled betel leaf stuffed with betel nut, lime paste and other mixes. But this one was used to keep fresh betel leaves. Chewing this mixture of betel nut and betel leaf sometimes mixed with tobacco and other flavours is a tradition, custom or ritual which dates back thousands of years from India to the Pacific This